When the narrow road meets, the brave wins, and the brave meet, and the wise wins!

The whole air froze, as if there was no one in Dorothy Chandler's Hall, only statues, and even the sound of the breeze was completely gone. The atmosphere was so tense that the blood stopped flowing, and he could only stare at Hugo and Curtis on the stage, unable to move at all.

The biggest favorite for the Best Original Screenplay Award is undoubtedly "Shakespeare's Love History", which won the Writers Guild of America Award and the Golden Globe Award in a row, and led the advantage of thirteen Oscar nominations into the awards ceremony, which can be called the biggest favorite in any award.

This was also proved after the opening of the award ceremony, all five departments were shortlisted, and three of them were awarded, and "Shakespeare's Love History" has the posture of replicating last year's "Titanic" sweeping thousands of troops; However, the subsequent award ceremony process changed, first "Saving Private Ryan" completed a counterattack in four important technical departments, including the best film editing and best cinematography, two heavyweight statuettes, which broke the overall momentum back to the balance; followed by the unexpected miss of the Best Soundtrack Award for "Shakespeare's Love History", which was won by "Truman's World" and "Life is Beautiful", and then the Best Adapted Screenplay Award broke out a huge upset......

This made the whole trend of the awards show reveal a kind of weirdness, but no one could say why.

So, what about the Best Original Screenplay award? Obtained by "Shakespeare in Love", re-leading with "Saving Private Ryan"; It was the "Saving Private Ryan" who won and continued to maintain his advantage over other competitors; Or maybe "Life is Beautiful" wins and gets the third statuette tonight, and returns to the race for best picture - creating incredible history; Or else ...... "Truman's world"?

Curtis opened the envelope, pulled out the card inside, and his expression seemed elusive, as if he was happy, seemed to be surprised, seemed to be surprised, seemed to be puzzled, too much information made it impossible to capture at all, he stood there stunned, as if waiting for his brain to come back to his senses, and then he said into the microphone, "The 71st Oscar, the winner of the Best Original Screenplay is ......"

Curtis then placed the envelope in front of Hugo, motioning for Hugo to announce the winner.

Bob under the stage coughed lightly twice, adjusted his position, his calmness had almost disappeared with his constantly shaking thighs, cold sweat slowly slid down his back, and there was a burst of itching, but he didn't dare to touch it, he could only hold his breath and watch the stage. Seeing Curtis show the envelope to Hugo, Bob's foul words came to his lips - "Grass! Just announce the answer, what the hell is it to create suspense", but he swallowed it stiffly.

The concentration was so complete that Bob forgot about Gwyneth.

Hugo pursed the corners of his mouth slightly, and the eyes hidden behind the light couldn't be seen clearly, and then he looked at Hugo leaning forward slightly, aiming at the microphone and said...... The sound seemed to come from the other side of the valley, playing at a speed that had been slowed down by a dozen times, empty and distant, faint and thin, so that Bob had to lean forward as if he could hear it clearly.

"'Truman...... Target...... World'...... Andrew...... nicol ......"

Then Bob saw the whole world replay as if it were in slow motion, and everyone was moving frame by frame, standing up from position, so slowly that it almost made one think that time had stood still. Bob only felt his knees go limp, and he almost fell to the ground, but this single action brought everything in the space back to normal, and the applause of "bang-la-la" surged in an instant, and the thunderous sound made the whole hall begin to shake.

Bob looked up at the big screen, and then saw the familiar face of Hugo - it was a movie poster of "Truman's World", a close-up of Hugo in his sleep. So...... The winner of the Best Original Screenplay award is "Truman's World"?

Bob looked at the stage, and Hugo, with an incomparably bright smile on his face, greeted him, gave "Truman's World" screenwriter Andrew Nicol a big hug, and whispered something in his ear, which made a shy and restrained smile appear on Andrew's face.

Turning his head to look, everyone in the crew of "Truman's World" was jumping, cheering, and celebrating. Bob knew, certainly, that the winner was not "Shakespeare's Love History". Bob's first reaction was to look at Harvey, who was also standing in front of his chair with a stiff smile on his face, constantly agitating his hands, but his eyes were full of confusion, obviously not knowing what was happening, why this was happening, and not knowing where the next awards ceremony would go.

In fact, "Shakespeare in Love" became a big hit throughout the awards season, which is a joke, at least in the eyes of Ernst Lechmann and Frank Pearson.

As a fictional love movie, "Shakespeare's Love History" is objectively good in quality, but under the vanity and gorgeous costumes, the wrapped love story lacks the parts that can really move people's hearts, and even the love story of the hero and heroine lacks sparks, which makes the birth of "Romeo and Juliet" even more powerless. To put it simply, it's a good movie, but if you really talk about artistry, creativity, then there's no point in discussing it.

On the contrary, among the many works of last year, the artistic value of the script "Truman's World" far exceeds that of other works, even the two works "Life is Beautiful" and "Saving Private Ryan" cannot be compared. It is true that the latter two works reveal human nature under war from different perspectives, which is a historical lesson that must be kept in mind at all times; But "Truman's World" pushes the peaceful life outlined by conservatives to the gallows, and more deeply, exposes all the lies, blood, and darkness hidden under the "good life" created by the government.

The media has always avoided talking about how far-reaching the brutality of the Vietnam War had on American society; In recent years, the United States has ignited wars all over the world as a world hegemon and interfered in the internal affairs of other countries many times. Big. At the time of the massacre, the government refused to lend a helping hand because of the "Black Hawk incident" in Somalia......

In times of peace, the rest of the world is plagued by poverty, war, and disease. And all of this information is glorified or even hidden by the government. In fact, the American people, surrounded by the government's lies, are not the residents of the paradise island town in "Truman's world"? However, no one dared to expose the government's lies, let alone take a step out of this ivory tower.

"Truman's World" has reached a high enough height in terms of story completion, character building, and theme mining, and even surpassed Hugo's "Perfect" last year and "L.A. Confidential" in which Hugo participated in the performance, and has truly become one of the best scripts in the past decade.

In fact, because the script was so good, Ernst, Frank and others didn't have much of an impression of Andrew Nichol, and upon closer investigation it was revealed that Andrew had only written a "Gattaca" script - starring Ethan Hawke and Cate Blanchett.

However, Andrew also admitted in an interview that Hugo and Peter can be regarded as co-writers of the script, and the two made many useful comments on the script and made changes. The final version of the script went through twenty-three revisions. Andrew originally hoped to put Hugo and Peter on the list when he signed up, but unfortunately they were firmly rejected by the two of them. As a result, there is only Andrew's name in the screenwriter column of "Truman's World".

All in all, other awards aside, in the Best Original Screenplay category, "Truman's World" is the big hit, always the big hit, and the only big hit in the eyes of many screenwriters. However, the Writers Guild of America awarded the award to "Shakespeare's Love History", which is a big joke.

After the results of the award, Ernst was furious in the union, and even pointed at Frank's nose in front of everyone and scolded, which left an indelible impression on the hearts of countless high-level members of the screenwriters' union.

Now, "Truman's World" has been recognized by the Oscar statuette, this is the way things are back on track, this is the reason for the existence of awards ceremonies like the Oscars, and this is the source of the authority of the Oscars.

The brave win when they meet on the narrow road - the brave meet, the wise wins! "Truman's world" is the real wise man.

Andrew, who was standing on the stage, was so excited that he could barely say a word, and it could be seen that he had not expected such a result at all, "Uh...... I think...... I owe a debt of gratitude to Hugo and Peter, in fact, they deserve to stand here with me and accept this trophy, because without them, this script would definitely not be what it is now. Andrew's voice was shaking, clearly showing the excitement in his heart.

Everyone under the stage gave Hugo and Peter a round of applause, and Hugo, who was standing on the side, raised his hands and gave Andrew a round of applause. The idea for "Truman's World" came from Andrew, and was written by Andrew, and this is the honor that Andrew won - like "The Shawshank Redemption", Hugo never considered himself one of the screenwriters.

The sky has changed, the sky has completely changed, the best adapted script department has an upset, and the best original script department has an accident! The whole development trajectory has completely deviated from the original expectations of the Weinstein brothers, and now the unknown has gradually become bigger and bigger, and it is getting out of control step by step.

"Truman's World" has won the Best Soundtrack Award and the Best Original Screenplay Award in a row, and finally sounded the horn of reversal!